Time travel to the past

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JEDI

Lifer
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Is it possible to travel back in time? If so is it possible to travel back in time prior to the creation of a time machine?

get Martha Bush to swallow instead
 

imported_Devine

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lol I was talking about this earlier in the week with some co-workers. So if you could go back in time and say you changed something, well the course of events has forked you could say, something like a Y. The right side is where it was going till you f'ed it up, the left side is now where it is going. Say you go back in time far enough to completely jack up your family and now congrats, you never existed, but you did cause you were the one that f'ed it up but yet you dont . .. . . ahhhhh *head asplodes* . .. . or am I just spewing sh1t outta my arse right now????
 

frostedflakes

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Is it possible to travel back in time? If so is it possible to travel back in time prior to the creation of a time machine?

Is it possible for you go back in time and kill yourself?
Or perhaps a far more important question, would it be considered murder or suicide?
 

91TTZ

Lifer
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Is it possible to travel back in time? If so is it possible to travel back in time prior to the creation of a time machine?

No, you can only go to the future by putting yourself in suspended animation.
 

frostedflakes

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Originally posted by: Devine
lol I was talking about this earlier in the week with some co-workers. So if you could go back in time and say you changed something, well the course of events has forked you could say, something like a Y. The right side is where it was going till you f'ed it up, the left side is now where it is going. Say you go back in time far enough to completely jack up your family and now congrats, you never existed, but you did cause you were the one that f'ed it up but yet you dont . .. . . ahhhhh *head asplodes* . .. . or am I just spewing sh1t outta my arse right now????
Based on quantum theory, from a single point in time there are an infinite number of possible futures, meaning the chances of affecting a specific future is incredibly small. Therefore, the probability of messing up our current reality by meddling around in the past is effectively zero. ;)

Don't mind me, I just started watching Noein, lol.
 

cKGunslinger

Lifer
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This thread is a repost. But don't bother trying to find the original, it was mine and I went back in time and didn't post it.
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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You would have never thought to ask this since you would've already known the answer.
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Is it possible to travel back in time? If so is it possible to travel back in time prior to the creation of a time machine?

not sure, but you will never find a time forward or back where you get laid.